Materials
Note cards marker
Instructions
1. Write a variety of easy reading words on note cards (one per card), such as sight words or consonant-vowel-consonant words. Prior to the activity, think of a few sentences using the words on the note cards and keep them together.
2. Gather the children (8-12 is ideal) around you on a rug on the floor.
3. Explain that they are going to become editors. You may wish to explain that editors correct sentences to make them easier to understand.
4. Pass out three to five of the cards (that make a potential sentence) to some children (one card per child).
5. Read aloud a possible sentence (scrambled) using the words on the cards.
6. Ask the children to arrange themselves in a line in the order that the words were read.
7. Now say, "Unscramble," and the children must figure out by themselves how to create a grammatically correct sentence. There may be several possibilities. Help them to understand this concept. (Perhaps they can be guided to make a question out of their sentence when done?)8. Read aloud the correct sentence or let the children read their own words aloud.
9. Choose another small group of children to create the next sentence.
10. Be sure all the children have been given the opportunity to participate before repeating the exercise or moving on to another activity.
